Martha-Mary Chapel wedding photographs subseries, 1940-ca. 1945.

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Martha-Mary Chapel wedding photographs subseries, 1940-ca. 1945.

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The subseries is primarily comprised of portraits of couples married in the chapel between 1940 and 1945. In addition, there is an album of mounted photographs of unidentified weddings and a folder of images of the interior of the chapel focusing on flower arrangements. Handwritten on verso of most of the images: name of bride, name of groom, date and time of wedding, and negative number.

2 cubic ft. : primarily photographs mounted on linen, b&w ; 8 x 10 in.

The Henry Ford, Benson Ford Research Center

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The Henry Ford, Benson Ford Research Center

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Henry Ford (Organization). Greenfield Village.

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Martha-Mary Chapel (Greenfield Village)

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Ford Motor Company. Engineering Photographic Dept.

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The chapel in Greenfield Village at The Henry Ford was built in 1929; the design was based on a larger Universalist church in Bradford, Massachusetts. The bricks and doors came from the Greenfield Township Bryant family home in which Henry and Clara Ford were married. The structure was named for Martha Bryant and Mary Litogot Ford, the mothers of Clara and Henry. Five replicas of the Georgian-style chapel were constructed by Ford in various locations around the country, although only the one in ...